 Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel. It is Drew here from Lone Fox and today's video is such an exciting one. First of all, it is the first kind of makeover in my new apartment series that I'm doing here on my channel. This is the horror movie room makeover. This guys is what I call the horror movie room. My roommate and I literally do not know what this is for. So I gave this room the name of the horror movie room because it was just scary, it was dark, it was random. There was no point to it. I was just very, very confused as to what it was. And I get asked all the time, what are you doing with the horror movie room? And I'm like, just wait. And I'm just so excited and also grateful because today's video is sponsored by Big Lots which is so amazing. They have such an incredible new line of decor by BroiHill at Big Lots and it is to die for you guys. You are going to be fricking obsessed with the decor. I'm gonna share the actual decor pieces a little bit later and I'm going to link them all below for you guys. But they are so affordable, they are aesthetic, they are cute, they are extremely amazing quality. And did I mention affordable because they are affordable. If you have never heard of BroiHill before, it is an line of affordable but high quality home decor that is actually great for honestly any style. Like I would definitely say all the pieces that I got for this makeover are perfect to kind of implement for your own style and they adapt really well to so many different styles as well. And all of the pieces are available to shop online which I have them linked below for you guys and you can either have them shipped to your home so you can just get them right at home or you can do a curbside pickup as well if you have a local Big Lots. You can actually pick up these items at your local store. I think it's gonna look so good in the end. So honestly, this intro needs to be over with. We need to get started with this makeover. So let's do so. I am currently standing outside of the horror movie room and I'm going to share with you guys kind of like a before of this room to show you what it looks like. Now, so many of you gave such amazing recommendations and I'm keeping all of those in mind while creating and designing this room. A lot of you guys said to do a bar area, a greenhouse situation, a reading nook. There was a ton of different suggestions and I kind of want to honestly mix a lot of those into one room. But let me go ahead and share with you guys what it looks like. So this is what the exterior of the room looks like. There are these like window panels, I guess you could say, on each side, the left and the right side. And there's also this door here, which of course can close, but I feel like we're probably just gonna leave it open a majority of the time, so it's just easily accessible. And then there's a large window here. And then basically inside, this is what the inside of this space looks like. This is the left side here. This literally looks like a creepy face, like another aspect of the horror movie room. And then over here, it looks like this. And there is a mirror on this side, as you can see. Guys, inserting clip right here of what I found in there a couple of weeks ago. Oh my gosh, you guys, there is something back there. I'm kind of scared. I don't even want to touch it. Like what if something comes out? It's a curtain. These have been back here for like a hundred years. I swear if something comes out of here, I'm gonna move. That's everything. Okay, it's not a dress. I literally could have sworn that was gonna be a dress. Like someone who ever lived in here like died in their dress was put up there. Like, it's curtains. So basically what I did was I emailed to the landlord and he is just the nice ever. So I emailed him and I was like, hi, can we paint the horror movie room, like the wood room off the dining room? Is it possible we could paint it? And basically he said, yes, you guys can do literally whatever he want to that room. So we have the go and the green light to essentially paint this space, which is really, really nice. So that's basically what I wanna kind of accomplish today with this space is fully painting it. Now, as you could probably see, these walls are kind of shiny. I'm not sure if it comes off on camera. It has like a shiny like gloss to the top of them. And I thought first that I might need to get a deglosser to put on top of these wood panels in order to be able to paint over it. And lastly, before painting, I do wanna mention that I'm going to be keeping this wood trim here. So the wood trim on this window is actually really pretty. It's kind of hard to see just because the windows here, but this wood trim here is actually kind of like a stressed dark wood, which I really like. This wood here is just a very like kind of orangey, almost cherry-ish wood, which is not my favorite. So I do wanna keep that. And then I'm also thinking about keeping this edging here around the inside frame, but painting all of these window areas because these are all super like brown and ugly. So those need to be painted white as well. Cabinets are just so strange because look this cabinet literally goes to nothing. There's a ledge right here and then there's a big opening back there. This room is just so odd. Whoever had this prior, I don't exactly know what. I don't know what they used it for. So about an hour has passed and the room is fully prepped. Everything is taped off that is not being painted and the floor is also fully covered in plastic just to keep it nice and protected. But as you could see, I'm not gonna be painting these exterior like molding areas, just this wood section, because I like this wood color, not a fan of all of this wood. So I'm gonna keep this and I'm gonna keep the window sill like I mentioned. To prime this wall, I actually had to use a brush first to go in and really kind of stipple the primer into the little like spaces between the wood. And then right after I did that, I smoothed it out using a foam roller. And that's kind of like the key to get a smooth finish on this is using a foam roller. All right, so here's our progress so far. I'm working this way, Marie's working that direction. Also guys, Marie and I are talking about how this stuff actually smells really good. Like I think we're gonna potentially get high off the fumes because it smells like Sharpie mixed with something that I've smelled before but I don't know what it is. White out. Oh, white out and Sharpie mixed. This is white out. This is what white out is made of. 7 p.m. and the room is fully primed. This literally took like five hours to prime this room. But it is pretty much all the way white, like of course it is streaky because it's just a primer. And I also went ahead and did all of the window frames as well. So everything is completely covered. Now with the primer, I'm gonna let this go ahead and dry overnight since it's already pretty late anyways and then do the actual paint coat tomorrow which is gonna be super exciting. I'm hoping maybe we'll get one coat. I just thought it was the best life hack ever. So if you have one of these, I just saw this on the countertop and I was like, okay, let's just pull this off. Oh, it's slippery. Okay, just kidding, it doesn't work. Cut. Good morning guys. It's day two of the horror movie Room Makeover and the primer has of course dried overnight. So today is going to be the day for painting literally my blog camera right now, the new one. Keep in mind has it paint all over it. I'm trying to like scrape it off. But yeah, I think we're just gonna head over into the other room and basically put a full coat of the paint on and I'm gonna share with you guys which paint that we are using in the room as well. I swear to you right now, I'm gonna drop my blog camera. It's gonna go right in the middle right there. So I'm gonna try my hardest not to but this is the paint color that we are using. Not sure like if we're gonna need one coat or two coats depending on the primer because as you can see, it's pretty splotchy still. It is a few hours later and the complete second coat has now been added to the walls and this is what it's looking like so far. I also went ahead and did like a sample on the ceiling to see if the color was different and as you can tell it is very different. So I'm gonna go ahead and roll the entire ceiling off the camera as well. I feel like I've been showing so much of the painting process already and it's probably just very repetitive and a bit boring. So I think I'm gonna pop back in once the room is completely and fully painted. Good morning everybody. You might notice that this room looks a little different and that is because it is. It's probably been like two days since last talking to you guys. It was Mother's Day yesterday, now it is Monday today. I went ahead and rolled everything an additional time. So now there is two coats on the entire wall and then I also did two coats on the ceiling as well but I didn't wanna just like keep filming myself painting so it is basically done now and I'm gonna share it with you guys I guess right now but the fun part is is we get to take off the tape and kind of like see what the room looks like without the tape because you know this green tape is also not that cute at the moment. So we're gonna take that off too but I'm really excited for this reveal because this is really gonna change the room the most so let's go ahead and remove the tape. All the tape is gone and guys look how amazing this room looks painted. So as you know I kept the wooden frame here just because I liked this wood. I thought it was like really interesting. Kind of looks distressed a little bit as you can see we got paint on it but it adds character so it's fine. I just love the color of this wood and I also went ahead and kept this trim here as you can see all the way around the door and honestly guys I feel like it is time to decorate because this space is pretty small so I'm not gonna be like putting any big furniture in here. I actually plan on DIYing a bench tomorrow. So I think tomorrow I'm gonna go ahead and start decorating this space. I'm gonna DIY a bench for you guys. You guys are gonna see me in like three seconds but I'm gonna see you tomorrow so yeah. Good morning guys it is decorating day which is such an exciting day for me. I am obsessed with the decorating day of any makeover it's probably my favorite one because I feel like this is the day where everything you've done kind of comes together and you really get to see everything kind of shine together and the room is kind of completed at this point and like I mentioned at the beginning of this video it is actually sponsored by Big Lots which I'm just so grateful for because I just absolutely love the products that they sent over and they're gonna be perfect, perfect decor additions to this space. These pieces are from a line at Big Lots called BroiHill which is a great, great collection of like super affordable but also a very high quality timeless pieces that can kind of match any style and also a great option is that when you are shopping online if you guys find some things that you may like you could do a curbside pickup if you want to so you can literally go pick it up at the store or you can just have them shipped directly to you which is amazing. So there's two different options but I'm gonna do like a quick little decor haul to share with you guys the pieces that I picked up and again everything's going to be linked in the description box below for you guys. I'm gonna start off with the throw pillows because they are probably two of my favorite items that I got and this is the Halima outdoor macrame throw pillow. It is so pretty. Guys look at this pillow. I am just obsessed with the macrame on this. It's also super soft and it is perfect for indoor as well. Then I got the Sidia tan striped outdoor lumbar pillow which kind of correlates back to the other one perfectly. Like see how great these are gonna go together. This one's really cute. It's like a woven fabric on the front and it has a little bit of this detail on it which is kind of like a little pom pom puffy on the front if you will. Now in this space I'm going to be doing a mixture of faux plants and real plants and that's just because I wanna put a lot of plants in here but honestly guys like I'm just letting you know right now I do not have a green thumb at all so I need to focus on like two plants in that space that are real and the other ones can be faux. So I actually have two of them in the broiler range. This is a greenery plant and a ceramic ribbed pot. I'm literally telling you guys the exact name so you can find on their site but it's gonna be linked below too. This is what that looks like. It's so cute. This just reminds me of some sort of like mod like 60s vibe or something. I think it's so unique and fun and the actual greenery of their faux plants is incredible. It's like that soft touch one that really feels real and then I also got a larger one. This is the fiddle fig potted plant which is really perfect for the space because my accent color in there is navy because I actually picked up a navy rug which I'll talk about next and the top of this just has this faux fiddle plant which looks a thousand percent real. I mentioned that it goes back to the rug and I got the manor navy runner which I'll put an overlay up in here. It's a little too large to hold up but it is basically a runner rug and it is perfect. It kind of has like a little bit of a vintage touch to it but I love the tone of navy in it. Navy's kind of my main accent color in the space. Then I got two ceramic vases and these are the ivory ceramic vases but guys look how pretty these are. They are first of all very large and they're very affordable. They kind of are rougher glazed towards the bottom here which I love in ceramics when they're glazed differently so you have like the shiny kind of top and then a matte bottom here. Perfect for like flower stems or whatever you want to put in here. I'm actually just going to leave them as is kind of to style them on a shelf. For the bar area I got this black galvanized tray with wood handles. It is just a large scale tray and it looks like this. Super cute. It has wooden handles on it and it's gonna be perfect to hold all of the alcoholic bevara jaws. I got a couple of wood items kind of to tie back to that window ledging. So this one is a nice wooden box with jute rope handle. It is so cute. It's like a little wall shelf so as you can see it looks like this. The back actually has keyholes on it and this piece is kind of just decorative hanging on there. And I also got this wooden decorative orb which is just kind of like a decor element. I liked the geometric pattern in this and I thought it was really unique. I've never seen something like this where it's made of wood. I also got this copper Moscow mule shaker set you guys. Look how stunning this is. I, Moscow mules are my favorite drink in the entire world so I wanted to get the Moscow mule mugs. They have a golden handle too which I love that. But it also comes with the shaker and it's like a copper tone. This is just gonna look so pretty and warm in the space. I picked up a candle. This is the Breuhil Apricot and Honey candle. I loved the color of the vessel on the outside but it also smells amazing. It's like a very strong candle but you can tell that when you light it it's just going to make the room smell like the perfect amount of scent. All right so those were all of the decor pieces. I'm going to link all of them below for you guys to take a look at if you are curious. And I wanna thank big lots again so much for sponsoring this video. Like the pieces are so cute and I'm so excited that they sent them over to me. I'm gonna go ahead and get the decorating because I honestly wanna see what this room looks like so let's go. It is time to DIY a focal point of this room and I found this tutorial by The Rehab Life. I will link her video below for you guys but the tools and supplies you're going to need are one 10 foot, two by eight piece of wood. Two eight foot, two by four pieces of wood. Two and a quarter inch wood screws and then just some wood stain. So what I started off by doing was actually sawing my wood down to size. I am not a construction worker guys so this is a construction worker, like what? I mean I am not a, oh my gosh, I'm gonna call myself a contractor. Basically you're gonna need wood as cut exactly as shown here. This is gonna create the legs and I'm using these two and a quarter inch wood screws and the nice thing about these screws is that they actually don't require you to pre-drill a hole. You can actually just screw them right in and I had no problems with this at all. So I basically just screwed these together in a box shape, the similar shape that I had laid them out in prior to show you the sizes. I added two screws to each end of the wood and just made sure that they were securely fastened together and it's just gonna create a strong bond cube. I then grabbed a little bit of like medium grit sandpaper and just sanded all of the kind of more rougher edges. This is going to be the leg section so it didn't need too much sanding. I feel like I focused more on the seat which this is a seat here. I actually cut a 10 foot, two by eight and a half and I made them five foot long each and then laid it down and I'm basically now just gonna be screwing screws into the legs and onto the base. I am so bad. Rachel Meps, where are you? Please help me. I then grabbed a ruler and measured the distance from the leg to the edge and did the same exact distance on the opposite side. That way they looked perfect and I screwed four screws in to create the base. Just made a bench. Of course it looks very uneven because we're on top of this cobblestone. What is this called? Rocks. Rocks? We're on top of rocks. I also went back in with my sandpaper and gave this a nice sanding. I wish I had an electric sander which I think I'm gonna invest in but I just went ahead and gave it a nice sanding because people are gonna be sitting on this so you're gonna want this to be pretty smooth. And now this is my favorite part. This is really what changed the entire bench. I'm actually mixing up about two thirds part of early American which is that middle color and then one third part of espresso which is a darker color to create this like medium toned really dark color. It looks so pretty. I just love the way that this color looked in the end. I went back outside, brought my stain with me and grabbed some paper towels to apply the stain. I only needed one coat of stain on this entire bench and it ended up just such a stunning color. It's like a darker sort of mid-century tone which I really love. And I wanted it a little bit darker than usual just because the window seal wood that I didn't end up painting was pretty dark as well so I didn't want too many wood tones going on in there so I tried to match the same tone of wood. All right guys, I just finished decorating the room and I am so excited to share it with you. I'm trying to hide the room a little bit but I'm gonna go ahead and reveal it to you guys in three, two, one. Wait, today's video, this was such a fun makeover. It was probably one of the most random, oddest rooms I've ever done but honestly the horror movie room does not look very scary anymore. I am very happy with the outcome of it and I think it looks really amazing for what we were able to do. Honestly, I think one of my favorite parts in this room is the DIY bench that I created. I cannot believe this literally cost only $20. I think it looks very expensive and I think it looks so cute. Plus all of the big lots decor that they were able to send over just made this room honestly pop so much. I love all the decor elements in here. Since this space is on the smaller side, I just wanted to add one kind of focal furniture piece which of course is the bench because what else are you gonna add in here? I thought the bench was a perfect touch under the window and the pillows accent it so nicely. Everything I did feature in this video is going to be linked in the description box for you guys to take a look below and if you are not already, make sure to subscribe to my channel for brand new home decor and DIY videos every single week. You could also follow me over on Instagram for more behind the scenes stuff which is just alone fucks home. I post photos and stories almost every single day over there so definitely follow along and I will catch you guys all in my next video. Have an amazing rest of your day and stay safe everybody. Bye guys. One last huge thank you to Big Lots for sponsoring today's video and I hope that you guys really love this one.